SAML Contracts

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAML over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 521 603
Rank change year-on-year +151 +82 -111
Contract jobs citing SAML 213 162 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.35% 1.26% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 112 148
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £580
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £24.34 - -
25th Percentile £24.59 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £77.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £77.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

SAML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

SAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAML.

Daily rate trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAML over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAML in the UK

SAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAML.

Hourly rate trend for SAML in the UK

SAML
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAML within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +129 166 £598 -0.42% 27
London +111 96 £575 -4.17% 11
Work from Home +106 94 £616 +2.71% 39
UK excluding London +65 73 £600 +4.35% 16
Midlands +47 26 £622 -2.43% 3
East Midlands - 17 £620 -
South West +3 13 £413 -36.54% 5
North of England +31 11 £620 +19.52% 1
Scotland +37 8 £750 +50.00% 1
West Midlands +20 8 £650 +1.96% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £432 - 1
East of England +9 5 £550 - 1
South East -1 5 £500 -13.04% 5
Wales - 5 £513 -
North West +22 4 £635 +22.41%

SAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.76%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.82%) IIS
3 5 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.88%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.94%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.74%) Azure
2 72 (33.80%) Entra ID
3 41 (19.25%) GCP
4 39 (18.31%) AWS
5 13 (6.10%) PaaS
6 12 (5.63%) IaaS
6 12 (5.63%) SaaS
7 8 (3.76%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.35%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.88%) GitHub
12 3 (1.41%) Apigee
12 3 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.98%) DNS
2 15 (7.04%) Firewall
3 13 (6.10%) Kerberos
4 12 (5.63%) Network Security
5 11 (5.16%) NetScaler
6 10 (4.69%) VPN
7 8 (3.76%) SSL
7 8 (3.76%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.82%) HTTP
9 5 (2.35%) SSH
9 5 (2.35%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.88%) IPsec
11 3 (1.41%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.41%) MPLS
11 3 (1.41%) VoIP
12 1 (0.47%) Internet
12 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.47%) LAN
12 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
12 1 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.76%) Apache Hive
1 8 (3.76%) Big Data
1 8 (3.76%) Impala
1 8 (3.76%) Power BI
1 8 (3.76%) SQL Server
1 8 (3.76%) Tableau
2 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.35%) MySQL
4 4 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Maven
2 7 (3.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.35%) Fiddler
3 5 (2.35%) GitLab
3 5 (2.35%) JIRA
4 4 (1.88%) Git
5 3 (1.41%) gulp
6 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Gradle
7 1 (0.47%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.47%) Mockito
7 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (17.84%) Public Sector
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.08%) Finance
4 10 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.82%) Retail
6 4 (1.88%) Banking
7 3 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (0.94%) Automotive
8 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 85 (39.91%) Architect
2 44 (20.66%) Developer
3 26 (12.21%) Java Developer
4 19 (8.92%) Security Architect
5 15 (7.04%) Consultant
6 12 (5.63%) ForgeRock Architect
7 11 (5.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (5.16%) Senior
8 10 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.23%) IAM Consultant
10 8 (3.76%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) AWS Architect
11 7 (3.29%) AWS Solution Architect
11 7 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.82%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.82%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.35%) Administrator
13 5 (2.35%) Analyst
13 5 (2.35%) SharePoint Administrator
13 5 (2.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (53.99%) OpenID
2 102 (47.89%) OAuth
3 46 (21.60%) REST
4 34 (15.96%) LDAP
5 24 (11.27%) Spring
6 23 (10.80%) Spring Boot
7 22 (10.33%) Restlet
8 21 (9.86%) GWT
8 21 (9.86%) JAX-RS
9 19 (8.92%) AngularJS
9 19 (8.92%) OAuth2
10 18 (8.45%) XACML
11 17 (7.98%) .NET
12 16 (7.51%) SailPoint
13 11 (5.16%) Tailwind CSS
14 10 (4.69%) RESTful
15 8 (3.76%) PySpark
15 8 (3.76%) Web Services
16 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Graph
16 7 (3.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.23%) PKI
3 8 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.29%) Insider Threat
4 7 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.35%) NHS
6 5 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.88%) Clustering
7 4 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.88%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.88%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.86%) Windows
2 7 (3.29%) Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Android
3 3 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.80%) Identity Access Management
2 37 (17.37%) DevOps
2 37 (17.37%) Identity Management
3 24 (11.27%) Agile
4 22 (10.33%) Migration
5 19 (8.92%) Cloud Security
6 18 (8.45%) Infrastructure Automation
6 18 (8.45%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 18 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (7.98%) RBAC
8 16 (7.51%) User Experience
9 15 (7.04%) Security Architecture
9 15 (7.04%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
10 14 (6.57%) Use Case
11 13 (6.10%) Risk Management
11 13 (6.10%) Roadmaps
11 13 (6.10%) Threat Detection
12 12 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.19%) Java
2 36 (16.90%) Python
3 32 (15.02%) JavaScript
4 26 (12.21%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.16%) Scala
7 7 (3.29%) SQL
8 5 (2.35%) Bash
9 4 (1.88%) Go
9 4 (1.88%) Perl
10 3 (1.41%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.94%) ABAP
11 2 (0.94%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.94%) C#
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
11 2 (0.94%) SOQL
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.76%) CISSP
5 3 (1.41%) CCIE
5 3 (1.41%) CCNP
5 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.41%) CISM
6 2 (0.94%) CISA
6 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.76%) WCAG
2 5 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.88%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.88%) QA
4 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.94%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.47%) GDPR
6 1 (0.47%) HL7
6 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (23.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.04%) Docker
3 4 (1.88%) Firmware
3 4 (1.88%) OpenAM
4 3 (1.41%) OpenIDM
5 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.47%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.47%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (50.23%) Single Sign-On
2 16 (7.51%) Ansible
3 14 (6.57%) PingFederate
4 13 (6.10%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.69%) Terraform
6 5 (2.35%) SCOM
7 3 (1.41%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.47%) NetIQ Identity Manager
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (17.37%) Google
1 37 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.49%) Okta
3 21 (9.86%) ForgeRock
4 15 (7.04%) Ping Identity
5 12 (5.63%) Citrix
6 11 (5.16%) IBM
7 9 (4.23%) CyberArk
7 9 (4.23%) Oracle
7 9 (4.23%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.76%) Talend
9 7 (3.29%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (3.29%) MuleSoft
9 7 (3.29%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.82%) Cisco
11 5 (2.35%) F5
12 4 (1.88%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.88%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.88%) SAP
13 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace